On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:39 PM, dave <davidrey...@gmail.com> wrote: > a = ['a', 'b', x] > > b = sorted(a) > > What does x need to be to always be last on an ascending sort no matter what > 'a' and 'b' are.... within reason... I am expecting 'a' and 'b' will be not > longer than 10 char's long.... I tried making x = 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz' and > believe it or not, this appears FIRST on the sort!!!
It appears last when I run the code. To answer your question, though, if you want to force x to be last, then I suggest removing it from the list and then appending it to the end. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
